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CLEP Analyzing And Interpreting Literature
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1. A nineteen-line lyric poem that relies heavily on repetition.
Pyrrhic
Villanelle
Foot
Parable
2. The main character of a literary work.
Protagonist
Mood
Antagonist
Characterization
3. A speech delivered while only one character is on stage; it reveals a character's innermost thoughts and feelings.
Characterization
Analogy
Solioquy
Hyperbole
4. A type of form or structure in poetry characterized by regularity and consistency in such elements as rhyme - line length - and metrical pattern.
Closed Form
Tercet
Villanelle
Internal Conflict
5. A long - statle poem in stanzas of varied length - meter - and form.
Voice
Connotation
Hyperbole
Ode
6. A narrative poem written in four-line stanzas - characterized by swift action and narrated in a direct style.
Aphorism
Ballad
Quatrain
Catharsis
7. A comparison between essentially unlike things without an explicitly comparative word such as 'like' or 'as'.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Metaphor
Satire
Act
8. A humorous moment in a serious drama that temporarily relieves the mounting tension.
Comic Relief
Reversal
Foot
Ode
9. A word that closely resembles the sound that the word is supposed to make.
Situational Irony
Analogy
Anapest
Onomatopoeia
10. Imitates another literary work using humor usually to make the author and/or the work appear ridiculous.
Image
Pyrrhic
Aubade
Parody
11. A metrical unit composed of stressed an unstressed syllables.
Quatrain
Fiction
Satire
Foot
12. A division or unit of a poem that is repeated in the same form - - either with similar or identical patterns or rhyme and meter - or with variations from one stanza to another.
Analogy
3rd Person (Omniscient)
External Conflict
Stanza
13. A lyrical poem that laments the dead.
Elegy
Character
Characterization
Style
14. An imaginary person that inhabits a literary work.
Rising Action
Character
Falling Meter
Verbal Irony
15. The implied attitude of a writer toward the subject and acharacters of a work.
Simile
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Tone
16. A figure of speech involving exaggeration.
Dialogue
Elegy
Hyperbole
3rd Person (Limited)
17. The first stage of a functional or dramatic plot - in which necessary background information is provided.
Anapest
Aphorism
Figurative Language
Exposition
18. A short story that teaches a moral or a religious lesson.
Parable
Connotation
Tercet
Diction
19. The reason the author has written a piece of literature.
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20. A poem of thirty-nine lines and written in iambic pentameter.
Persona
Closed Form
Comic Relief
Sestina
21. A story passed down over generations that is believed to be based on real events and real people.
Flashback
Fiction
Legend
Nonfiction
22. A person - place - thing or event that has meaning in itself and also stands for something more than itself.
Spondee
Metonymy
Character
Symbol
23. A strong pause within a line.
Narrative Poem
Caesura
Trochee
Allegory
24. A character struggles against some outside force.
Parallelism
External Conflict
Antagonist
Figurative Language
25. The use of symbols in literature to convey meaning.
Dialect
Cliche
Symbolism
Lyric Poem
26. The organizational form of a literary work.
Structure
Literal Language
Epic
Enjambment
27. A character struggles with himself/herself and his/her opposing needs.
Character
Octave
Pyrrhic
Internal Conflict
28. A stressed syllable followed by two unstressed ones.
Author's Purpose
Trochee
Dactyl
Metonymy
29. A figure of speech in which two opposing ideas are combined.
Foreshadowing
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Meter
30. Poetic meters such as trochaic and oactylic that move or fall from a stressed to an unstressed syllable.
Complication
Protagonist
Falling Meter
Iamb
31. The emotion or feeling a word creates.
Parable
Connotation
Scenes
Parody
32. The idea of a literary work abstracted from its details of language - character - and action - and cast in the form of a generalization.
Act
Conflict
Satire
Theme
33. The matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words.
Dactyl
Rhyme
Quatrain
Analogy
34. The conversation of characters in a literary work.
Epiphany
Denotation
Dialogue
Metaphor
35. Words and phrases that vividly recreate a sound - sight - smell - touch - or taste for the reader by appealing to the senses.
Imagery
1st Person
Diction
Protagonist
36. An intensification of the conflict in a story or play.
Falling Action
Complication
Motif
Foot
37. A figure of speech in which two completely unlike things are compared.
Ballad
Ode
Conceit
Figurative Language
38. As the conflict(s) develop and the characters attempt to revolve those conflicts - suspense builds.
Rising Action
Elegy
Fiction
Ode
39. A historical or literary reference to a person - place - thing - or event that the reader is expected to recognize.
Foreshadowing
Rhyme
Climax
Allusion
40. A technique designed to enact social change by using wit to rificule ideas - customs or institutions.
Meter
Denotation
Satire
Climax
41. A Greek term first used by Aristotle to describe the emotional cleansing or purification that results after watching a tragedy performed on stage.
Catharsis
Scenes
Comic Relief
Iamb
42. The omission of an unstressed vowel or syllable to preserve the meter of a line of poetry.
Trochee
Literal Language
Elegy
Elision
43. Refers to a writers use of language - including the use of literary techniques - word choice - and sentence structure - that sets one writer apart from another.
Falling Action
Alliteration
Theme
Voice
44. A technique in which words - phrases - or sounds are repeated for emphasis.
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Sestina
Repetition
45. The vantage point from which the writer tells the story.
3rd Person (Omniscient)
Antagonist
Point of View
Pyrrhic
46. A run-on line of poetry in which logical and grammatical sense carries over from one line into the next.
Sonnet
Couplet
Enjambment
Scenes
47. The difference between what is expected and what actually happens.
Folklore
Irony
Stereotype
Mood
48. A story passed down over the generations that was once believed to be true.
Syntax
Myth
Metonymy
Free Verse
49. A symbolic narrative in which the surface details imply a secondary meaning.
Allegory
Satire
Metonymy
Metaphor
50. The recurrence of accent or stress in lines of verse.
Rhythm
Cliche
Alliteration
Personification